Clothes display hanger



June 3, 1941- y Y L. c. BRITNER 2,244,355

CLOTHES DISPLAY HANGER Filed April 12, 1940 3 INVENTOR L. C. .Briiner 14BY ATTORNEYS Patented June 3, 1941 CLOTHES DISPLAY HANGER Lester C.Britner, Santa Rosa, Calif.

Application April 12, 1940, Serial No. 329,273

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a garment display hanger, and particularly forhanging what are known as slack suits.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a suit hanger soconstructed that the trousers of the suit may be hung from the belt lineand displayed in a full length natural manner substantially as if worn,while the jacket or coat may also be hung on the hanger above thetrousers.

Although particularly designed for slack suits, the hanger may also beused for hanging womens suits of the coat and skirt type.

A further object of the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensivedevice and yet one which will be exceedingly effective for the purposefor which it is designed.

These objects I accomplish by means of such structure and relativearrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the followingspecification and claim.

In the drawing similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in the several views:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the hanger, with the releasableclamping bar in position to place or remove trousers in the hanger.

Figure 2 is a similar fragmentary view, showing said bar in a held andclamping position.

Figure 3 is a sectional plan on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Figure 4 is a fragmentary end view of the hanger.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on thedrawing, the hanger is preferably made of two pieces of tempered steelrod. One such piece includes a top hook I to engage a supporting rod orpeg. A short shank 2 depends from the hook, this being followed by ashort portion 3 sloping away from the hook, and which provides a supportor shaper for the collar of the jacket. The hanger rod then bendssharply down as at G for a short distance, and then extends at adownward slope substantially parallel to portion 3 and away from thesame to one end of the hanger to form a coat or jacket shoulder support5. At the outer end of support 5 the rod is bent down to form adepending arm 6 which terminates in an inturned vertically disposed eye'I.

The other piece of rod of which the hanger is constructed includes ashort straight portion 8 abutted and secured against shank 2, and isthen bent to form a portion 3a corresponding to and symmetrical withportion 3, a shoulder support 5a corresponding to and symmetrical withsupport 5, and a depending arm 9 at the outer end of support 50..

Instead of said arm terminating as does arm 6 however, arm 9 at itslower end is formed with an abrupt bend It, and the rod then extendsstraight across to the eye I to form a clamping bar I I. The bar passessnugly through eye 'I in the form of a fiat horizontal loop I2 and thendoubles back in close horizontal relation to bar II to a terminationadjacent but beyond arm 9, forming a cooperating clamping bar I3. Theloop I2 is formed during manufacture so that the bar I3 normally assumesa downward slope to its free end, as shown in Fig. 1, thus forming anopening between bars I I and I3 of suiiicient depth at the arm 9 to makeit easy to initially slide the trousers to be hung between the bars.

In order to clamp the trousers in place however, it is necessary thatthe bars shall be held in horizontally parallel relation to each other,and to this end the arm 9, on the same side as the bar I3, is providedwith an upwardly facing crotch or cradle member I4 to receive the bar I3adjacent its free end from above and disposed so that when said bar isseated in the cradle, it is parallel to bar I I.

In order that the releasable bar may exert a slight pressure along theheld garment for the greater portion of its length, said bar I3 ispreferably bent or curved outward slightly for a short distance from itsfree end as at I5, corresponding substantially to the slope of theadjacent side of the loop I2 at the other end of the bar. Due to thisarrangement, a narrow slot I6 is formed between the bars forsubstantially their full length when bar I3 is held in the cradle I4,which slot however is capable of variation according to the thickness ofthe goods being held on account of the natural resiliency of the metaland the chance it has to give outwardly at the loop and cradle ends.

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I haveproduced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of theinvention as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in detail the present and preferredconstruction of the device, still in practice such deviations from suchdetail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit ofthe invention, as defined by the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and useful anddesire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A garment hanger including a supporting unit having depending end arms,a vertical eye formed on the lower end of one arm, a clamping bar rigidwith the other arm and extending therefrom to one side of said eye, ahorizontal 100p formed as an extension of said bar and projectingthrough the eye, a unitary cooperating clamping bar formed with andextending from the loop on the other side of the eye and projecting to atermination beyond the other arm,

said cooperating bar and loop being resilient and the bar normallydiverging relative to the first named bar from said loop, and means onsaid other arm to releasably engage the cooperating bar adjacent itstermination and hold said bar horizontally parallel and close to thefirst named bar.

LESTER C. BRITNER.

